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Ready Thoughts: Ready, Willing and Able

To have a collective impact on child and youth outcomes, leaders must develop and implement a broad, long-term child and youth strategy, and be accountable for results. This can be a challenge. Policies often require the creation of strategic plans that are organized around a single, narrow topic.

Forum Flash: Youth Jobs, Youth Engagement, OST

A story of achievement, sharing youth data, working training pays of

Fragmented data systems result in wasted resources; we are letting young people fall through
the cracks. if we don’t provide our policy makers the information they need to see how fragmented programs and policies could fit together, and if we don’t provide our direct service providers the in-

Expanded Learning Time Does Not Equal Expanded Learning

Balancing work and school can hinder a young person’s success in higher education. However, the opposite can also be true: Good jobs facilitate student persistence and completion. So what does it look like when working works for students? That’s what we need to understand in order to transform employment opportunities into drivers of student success.

Youth Organizing for Change, Creative Youth Programs and Lessons from Penn State